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ISBN: | 9780817914363 0817914366 9780817914387 0817914382 9780817914349 081791434X
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Digital file characteristics: | text file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | The author argues that Israel stands on the frontlines of a new struggle over the international laws of war and exposes abuses of law that have been promulgated by international human rights lawyers, UN bodies, and intellectuals to illegitimately circumscribe the right of liberal democracies to defend themselves against transnational terrorists. The Goldstone Report, which was published by the United Nations in September 2009, and the Gaza flotilla controversy, which erupted at the end of May 2010, are examples of those abuses. This book criticizes the flawed assumptions and defective claims a.
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Other form: | Print version: Berkowitz, Peter, 1959- Israel and the struggle over the international laws of war. Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, 2012 9780817914349
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